Somerset House, Shakespeare and his company at, [233] and n 2
Sonnet in France (1550-1600), the, bibliographical note on (Appendix X.), [442-5]
Sonnets, Shakespeare’s: the poet’s first attempts, [84]
the majority probably composed in 1594, [85]
a few written between 1594 and 1603 (e.g. cvii.)
their literary value, [87] [88]
circulation in manuscript, [88] [396]
commended by Meres, [89]
their piratical publication in 1609, [89-94] [390]
their form, [95] [96]
want of continuity, [96] [100]
the two ‘groups,’ [96] [97]
main topics of the first ‘group,’ [98] [99]
main topics of the second ‘group,’ [99] [100]
rearrangement in the edition of 1640, [100]
autobiographical only in a limited sense, [100] [109] [125] [152] [160]
censure of them by Sir John Davies, [107]
their borrowed conceits, [109-24]
indebtedness to Drayton, Petrarch, Ronsard, De Baïf, Desportes, and others, [110-12]
the poet’s claim of immortality for his sonnets, [113-16] cf. [114] n 1
the ‘Will Sonnets,’ [117] (and Appendix VIII)
praise of ‘blackness,’ [118]
vituperation, [120-4]
‘dedicatory’ sonnets, [125] seq.
the ‘rival poet,’ [130-6]
sonnets of friendship, [136] [138-47]
the supposed story of intrigue [153-8]
summary of conclusions respecting the sonnets, [158-60]
edition of 1640, [300]
Sonnets, quoted with explanatory comments:
xx. [93] n : xxvi. [128] n : xxxii. [128] [129] n : xxxvii. [130]
xxxviii. [129] : xxxix. [130] : xlvi.-xlvii. [112] [113] n 1
lv. [115] [116] : lxxiv. [130] (quot.) : lxxviii. [125]
lxxx. [134] : lxxxv. [133] : lxxxvi. [132] : lxxxviii. [133]
lxxxix. [133] : xciv. [1] [14] [72] [89] : c. [126]
ciii. [126] : cvii. [13] n [87] [147] [149] [380]
cviii. [130] : cx. [44] [130] : cxi. [45] : cxix. [152] and n
cxxiv. [425] : cxxvi. [97] and n : cxxvii. [118]
cxxix. [152] [153] and n 1 : cxxxii. [118]
cxxxv.-cxxxvi. [420-424] : cxxxviii. [89]
cxliii. [93] n [425] [426] and n : cxliv. [89] [153] [301]
cliii.-cliv. [113] and n 2
the vogue of the Elizabethan: English sonnettering inaugurated by Wyatt and Surrey, [83] [427] [428]
followed by Thomas Watson, [83] [428]
Sidney’s ‘Astrophel and Stella,’ [83] [428] [429] and n
poets celebrate patrons’ virtues in sonnets, [84]
conventional device of sonnetteers of feigning old age, [85] [86] n
lack of genuine sentiment, [100]
French and Italian models, [101] and n 1 [102-5] Appendices IX. and X.
translations from Du Bellay, Desportes, and Petrarch, [101] and n 4 [102] [103]
admissions of insincerity, [105]
censure of false sentiment in sonnets, [106]
Shakespeare’s scornful allusions to sonnets in his plays, [107] [108]
vituperative sonnets, [120-24]
the word ‘sonnet’ often used for ‘song’ or ‘poem,’ [427] n 2
I. Collected sonnets of feigned love, 1591-7, [429-40]
II. Sonnets to patrons, [440]
III. Sonnets on philosophy and religion, [440] [441]
number of sonnets published between 1591 and 1597, [439-41]
various poems in other stanzas practically belonging to the sonnet category, [438] n 2
Soothern, John, sonnets to the Earl of Oxford, [138] n 2
Sophocles, parallelisms with the works of Shakespeare, [13] n
Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of, [53]
the dedications to him of ‘Venus and Adonis’ and ‘Lucrece,’ [74] [77]
his patronage of Florio, [84] n
his patronage of Shakespeare, [126-50]
his gift to the poet, [126] [200]
his youthful appearance, [143]
his identity with the youth of Shakespeare’s sonnets of ‘friendship’ evidenced by his portraits, [144] and n [145] [146]
imprisonment, [146] [147] [380]
his long hair, [146] n 2
his beauty, [377]
his youthful career, [374-381]
as a literary patron, [382-9]
Southwell, Robert, circulation of incorrect copies of ‘Mary Magdalene’s Tears’ by, [88] n
publication of “A Foure-fould Meditation’ by, [92] [400] and n [401] n
dedication of his ‘Short Rule of Life,’ [397]
Southwell, Father Thomas, [371]
Spanish, translation of Shakespeare’s plays into, [354]